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Paul Annesley This is the personal website of Paul Annesley, senior developer at 99designs in Melbourne, Australia. You can follow Paul on Twitter.

Recent Bookmarks

  • toto » Tiny blog engine in Ruby and Rack, uses flat git-managed content files containing YAML & ERB/Markdown, handles comments via disqus, leaves caching to HTTP.
  • Machinarium » A puzzle point-and-click adventure game with a nice ambient soundtrack and a Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee feel about it. Implemented in flash, free demo.
  • Semantic Versioning » Simple version number specification for systems which expose a public API. The format is major.minor.patch (e.g. 3.0.12); major indicates backwards incompatible, minor indicates backwards compatible, and 0.x.x indicates rapid development.
  • The Go Programming Language » New programming language from Google: performance like C, dynamic like Python, concurrent like Erlang.
  • node.js » Event driven network IO for V8 JavaScript.
  • v8 JavaScript Engine » Google's JavaScript engine as seen in Chrome, runs standalone or embedded in C++
  • jaml - GitHub » Jaml tries to emulate Ruby’s Haml library, making it easy to generate HTML in your JavaScript projects.
  • proxymachine - GitHub » Awesome looking Ruby/EventMachine TCP proxy from GitHub that does content-based routing to a backend. Opens a proxy to a backend once the read buffer contains enough information for a ruby block to return the desired backend address.

People

  • James Annesley » Maker and purveyor of fine jazz saxophone music in Melbourne, Australia

Visual Refreshment 2009

09 January 2009

To bring in the new year on a bright note, I decided to turf my old, tired, dark, noisy blue design. Welcome to paul.annesley.cc — 2009 edition, with a refreshed, dare I say "cleaner" white design.

Dropping a column and removing all the graphics, backgrounds, borders and so on was a simple task — a testament to CSS and the separation of structure and presentation. Adjustments to the navigation and the addition of an about page were quick thanks to Django.

Enjoy, and happy new year!

Very blue website screenshot Very white website screenshot